Churchyard

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  • noun. A yard adjacent to a church, especially a cemetery.
  • noun. The ground on which a church stands.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The ground or yard adjoining a church; especially, such a piece of ground used for burial; hence, any graveyard belonging to a church.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A patch of land adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.
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  • noun. the yard associated with a church
    • Word Usage
    "Arching over the entrance to the churchyard is an amazing piece of artwork."
    cross-reference
    churchyard beetle  
    Form
    churchyard cough  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    yard  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cemetery  chancel  chapel  chateau  cloister  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    God's acre  burial place  burying ground  cemetery  graveyard  
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